JD(S) candidate for Channapatna bypoll, Nikhil Kumaraswamy
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Bengaluru: JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda and his son Union Minister H D Kumaraswamy on Sunday refused to react to the third defeat of the latter’s son Nikhil Kumaraswamy who lost the byelection in Channapatna.
Nikhil lost the election by a margin of 25,413 votes to Congress candidate C P Yogeshwar. The byelection results were announced on Saturday.
Earlier, Nikhil had lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Mandya against the BJP-backed independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh and the 2023 assembly election from Ramanagara against the Congress candidate H A Iqbal Hussain.
Speaking to reporters, Deve Gowda said, “Not…now ....I will speak to you (the media) in the party office sometime later. I will answer all your queries.”
Kumaraswamy maintained that there is no point in discussing the Channapatna election results. “People have given their verdict and we have to accept it,” he said.